short span of daylight
warmth of sun stays out of reach
chickadee huddles
thoughts of spring blossoms bring hope
darkness will now grow shorter
Frank Tassone’s Winter Solstice challenge
Image source: fineartamerica.com (Ice Storm Chickadees by Johanna Lerwick)
You describe it well. Poor chickadees.
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Reblogged this on Frank J. Tassone and commented:
#Haiku Happenings #8: Ken G’s latest #tanka for my current #haikai challenge!
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Thank you for sharing, and for the challenge.
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My pleasure!
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The constant in the changing seasons is captured well.
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Thank you.
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Your poems are bird`song in my winter . . . Thank you for them!
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You are kind, sir. Thank you.
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aloha Ken. i like the line “chickadee huddles”. i’m not quite sure i can see it clearly, yet i feel the cold in the words. as i know you like photography, i’d like to encourage the use of your own images as well. very cool. aloha r.
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Howdy, and thanks. I do use my own photos when possible. The one chance I had to take a closeup photo of a chickadee (in a fir tree just outside my door) was in the early, low res days of digital. There aren’t many fir trees nearby (here), so shots like that are less likely these days. Thanks for stopping by.
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